Paige Thorne, widely known for her stint on Love Island, is using her new platform to explain why people should support the ongoing NHS strikes.
Paige, 25, appeared on the final season of the reality dating show and entered the villa with Adam Collard.
While they left the programme together, they split up shortly after as several cheating rumours surfaced.
Paige was determined to return to her day job despite having over one million Instagram followers and being besieged with influencer possibilities when the show concluded.
She returned for her first shift in September.
She has now taken to social media to try to explain to her followers why so many healthcare workers are on strike.
On Thursday, she posted photographs and videos from the picket line with the message “Supporting Ambulance Strikes,” while wearing a Unite the Union beanie.
People were flying Unite flags and holding signs that read ‘Raise NHS pay now!’ and ‘Honk if you support fair pay for NHS staff’ throughout the strike.
She later recorded a video from her house explaining why so many people were forced to walk off the job.
‘I wanted to explain a bit more because people are asking “how can you support these strikes when people are dying?”, she said.

She continued: ‘Within Wales there have been delegations agreed on are basically exemptions to why the service we are providing is being disrupted.’
‘We have agreed and always will agree on providing the top tier highest priority call life threatening cover. We do not want anyone to come to calm from the disruption to the service, but we have been pushed to this as a last resort to get the government to understand that staff are facing such financial crisis.’
Paige added that some NHS workers ‘can’t even afford to travel to work and pay fuel for their cars which is unbelievable considering that the service we provide day in day out and the extreme pressure we deal with’.

She also showed how, in comparison to the rate of inflation, NHS employees have actually received a salary cut over the last decade.
‘We are there 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and we and don’t take a day off,’ she said.
‘We work under intense pressure and provide the absolute best service we can every single day.
‘Staff literally can’t afford to heat their homes and those who have families can’t afford to feed them and have to use Foodbanks.’
‘It is beyond words and that is why we are pushed to strikes.’
Paige went on to say that they ‘didn’t want anyone to come to harm,’ and that they would continue to offer life-threatening cover, but that the disruptions were required.

Paige’s video was posted on the first of two 24-hour strikes, with over 1,000 ambulance personnel from the Unite union taking part.
She had joined one of the 23 picket lines throughout Wales in “their campaign to prevent the Welsh NHS from collapsing,” according to the union.
Paige was forced to retire from her profession, which she has described as her “passion,” when she signed up for Love Island, but she was able to return to it a few months ago.
On her first shift back, she shared that ‘a little part of me is nervous because it’s been so long since I’ve been off, but more than anything, I’m super excited to be back’.
She added that she was excited to be back ‘doing what I absolutely love’.
While Paige’s time on Love Island ended in heartbreak, a fresh crop of singles is currently filming the latest season in South Africa, where plenty of drama is already emerging.
Love Island returns tomorrow at 9pm on ITV2 and ITVX.